How To Replace Throttle Position Sensor 2000-13 GMC Savana 5-3L 6-0L
Created on: 2013-09-24
Watch this installation in order to help you replace the TPS or throttle position sensor on your 00-13 GMC Savana 5.3L/6.0L.
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step 1 :Disconnecting the Battery
- Disconnect the negative battery cable with a 10mm socket and ratchet
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step 2 :Removing the Air Intake Box
- Remove the two 10mm bolts from the air intake box
- Disconnect the air box wiring harness
- Loosen the air box hose clamp with a flat blade screwdriver
- Lift the air box up and out
- Loosen the air intake hose clamp with a flat blade screwdriver
- Lift the intake hose up and out
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step 3 :Removing the Coolant Bottle
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the coolant bottle
- Lift the coolant bottle up and out
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step 4 :Removing the Serpentine Belt
- Attach a 15mm socket and ratchet to the serpentine belt tensioner
- Push the tensioner down to loosen the belt
- Pull the belt off the alternator
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step 5 :Removing the Alternator
- Remove the 15mm bolt from the passenger side of the alternator
- Loosen the 15mm bolt from the driver side of the alternator
- Pry the alternator out of the way with a pry bar
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step 6 :Removing the Throttle Position Sensor (TPS)
- Disconnect the TPS wiring harness
- Remove the two T20 Torx screws from the TPS
- Pull the TPS out
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step 7 :Installing the TPS
- Push the TPS into place
- Insert the two T20 screws into the TPS
- Connect the TPS wiring harness
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step 8 :Reinstalling the Alternator
- Push the alternator into place
- Insert the 15mm bolt into the passenger side of the alternator
- Tighten the two 15mm bolts into the alternator
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step 9 :Installing the Serpentine Belt
- Attach a 15mm socket and ratchet to the serpentine belt tensioner
- Push the tensioner down to loosen the belt
- Pull the belt onto the alternator
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step 10 :Installing the Air Intake
- Put the intake hose into place
- Tighten the intake hose clamp with a flat blade screwdriver
- Put the air box into place using the locating tabs
- Tighten the air box hose clamp with a flat blade screwdriver
- Insert the two 10mm bolts into the air box
- Connect the air box wiring harness
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step 11 :Installing the Coolant Bottle
- Put the coolant bottle into place
- Insert the 10mm bolt into the coolant bottle
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step 12 :Connecting the Battery
- Connect the negative battery cable with a 10mm socket and ratchet
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
T20 Driver
15mm Socket
Pry Bar
10mm Socket
Ratchet
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the throttle position sensor in this 2005 GMC Savana 2500 with the 6-liter V8 engine. The tools you'll need for this are a 10mm and 15mm socket and ratchet, and a T20 Torx bit, along with a flat-blade screwdriver and a pry bar.
The first thing to do is remove your negative cable from the battery. Use a 10mm socket and ratchet to just loosen up that bolt and pull the cable off the battery.
Remove these two 10mm bolts that secure the air intake box. Fast forward as he does this. Disconnect the harness to the air intake box, and set it aside. Use a flat-blade screwdriver to loosen up this clamp. With the clamp loosened up, you should be able to just lift and pull out your air intake box. Using a flat-blade screwdriver loosen up the clamp on this part of the air intake. Once that's loosened up you should be able to pull that up and out.
Remove your radiator overflow bottle, just remove the 10mm bolt that holds it in place. It will lift up and pull out. You just want to set that aside.
Now that you can see the serpentine belt, use a 15mm socket and ratchet and place it on the tensioner pulley. Push that down and it will loosen up the belt and you'll be able to pull it off the alternator.
There's two 15mm bolts securing the alternator. Remove the one on the passenger side and loosen the one on the driver side. Once you have that one bolt out and the other loosened, use the pry bar to pry the alternator up and out of the way.
Now, we have access to the throttle position sensor, right here. Disconnect the connector and pull it away. We'll just fast forward as he removes the two T20 screws that secure the throttle position sensor. Once you have those screws out, the throttle position sensor comes right off.
With your new sensor, line up the flat part with the flat part on the van and you want to push that into place and replace those two T20 screws. We'll just fast forward as he tightens those up. Reconnect that harness, and push the connector back in.
To get the alternator to go back down, swing it back and slam it down in. Insert that bolt and fast forward as he tightens those two 15mm bolts.
Here's the belt diagram for the van and I included this just in case. If for some reason the belt slips off one of these pulleys, you know what order it goes in. You now if it goes above it or below it. It helps out. You can use this as a reference point if you need it. With the belt in place, put that 15mm socket on the tensioner and push down on that and that will allow you to align the belt on all of the pulleys. Make sure you have it in place and then tighten the tensioner back up.
Take that part of your intake and put it back down, put it into position and use a flat blade screwdriver to tighten up the clamp. Reinstall your air intake box. There are two holes there, they line up with the two pegs on the van. Feed that down in there. Get it into position and, using a flat blade screwdriver, just tighten up that clamp where it connects. See that he actually loosened up the part of the intake you put in before this, just so he could angle it and push this part down. Tighten both those clamps back up if you have to do that. Fast forward. Put in those 10mm bolts that secure the air intake box and reconnect the harness.
Realign your radiator overflow bottle, put it into position, and replace the 10mm bolt in that.
Reconnect your negative cable back to your battery
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